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It was not only gorgeous and incredibly magical, but it also wasn't interested in resolving the story to give a simplistic moral for children or something. You don't learn the true meaning of friendship or courage or any shit like that. Stuff just happens and sometimes it's funny, scary, awe-inspiring or just heartbreaking.

Also, the film managed a surprising task of demonstrating just how incredibly mind-blowing those illuminated texts must have been for people living in that time. It's easy to understand why they would have been religious experiences.

Eastern Standard magazine

These are the 4 issues of the fanzine we produced a while back (2002-2004). They're rough, but they're also the foundation for a lot of what we've built since then, including this site.
Click on the issues to bring up the full reader.
Issue 1 focused on Berserk, Jin-roh, and Asian live-action movies. It also had a memorable review of Gundress.

Issue 2 was a dissection of FLCL (it explains it all, really) and the work of Taiyo Matsumoto.